Some OJ moments
With OJ back in jail and charged with six or more felonies, several of which were caught on tape and are available via TMZ, some of the bad old days are back. Patt Morrisson has a review of If I did it in the LA Times:
Chapter 6 — “The Night in Question” — begins disingenuously. Simpson complains about arthritis pain so crippling he sometimes can’t pick up a spoon (let alone a knife, hint hint). Then a guy he’d met only a couple of times — someone named “Charlie” — shows up and says something about Nicole’s conduct that sets Simpson off. And off they go to “scare” her. “Then,” Simpson writes, “something went horribly wrong, and I know what happened but I can’t tell you exactly how…I put my left hand to my heart and my shirt felt strangely wet…[I] noticed the knife in my hand. The knife was covered in blood…I wondered how I had gotten blood all over my knife, and I again asked myself whose blood it might be.”
Roger Simon reminisces in a lengthy piece at Pajamas and says that OJ changed his life, or at least was a significant moment in the transformation of his political views. Roger even attended the Trial of the Century. Recalling that trial, though OJ was obviously guilty, it also seemed quite possible, based on the LAPD’s testimony, that a little of OJ’s blood was planted at the crime scene — in addition of course to the naturally occurring OJ blood at the crime scene. But none of that probably matters at this point.